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The Assassination of Haiti President: What happened?
Jovenel Moïse, fifty-three years old, was shot dead at his Pelerin 5 neighborhood. Police state that the assassination occurred at 1:00pm local time on July 7, 2021. The president had bullet wounds on his torso and forehead and was shot twelve times. According to the investigation’s judges, the president’s left eye had a hole, and his arms and ankles were broken. However, he died at the scene of the assassination. His wife, first lady Martine Moise was also attacked, but she survived. Haitian police state that a group of two Haitian Americans together with twenty-six Colombians performed the killings. However, there is the question of who pulled the trigger. The country’s opposition leader Steven Benoit spoke to the local radio stations, and he believes that the president was killed by his close security agents and not the Colombians. El Tiempo, a Colombian newspaper, quoted an unidentified source stating that the group of twenty-eight individuals had arrived at the president’s residents between 2:30am and 2:40am, way after the stated time for the president’s killing (BBC, 2021). Audio published on Twitter described the president wife’s experience where she stated that the armed force entered the house within a short time and shot the president.
How they gained access and the suspect
Video footage taken by residents exposed men in black clothes arriving with many…
